Handhold-strap for automobiles.



N0.s55,'112, .v 7 PATENTED MAY 28,1907.

' G.'S.VMAQMULLAN."

HANDHOLD STRAP FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLIOATIOH FILED MAB-8. 1907.

- WI TNESSES:

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

HANDHOLD-STRAP FOR AUTOMOBILES. i

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed Mm]. 8,1907. SerialNo. 361,247.

Patented May 28, 1907.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. MAoMUL- LAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Oakland, in the county of Alameda and,

State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements inHandhold-Straps for Automobiles, of which the following is aspecification. Y

My invention relates to a hand-hold-strap for automobiles and the like.Its object is to provide'an attachment for the seat of a motor car,which the occupants of the car may take hold of in case of need toprevent their being jolted around or thrown out; and which attachmentshall be simple, cheap, neat and attractive, and which may be concealedfrom view when not in use. a

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a sectionalview of a vehicle seat showing the hand-strap operable in a pocket inthe back portion of the-seat. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the strapoperable in a pocket in the side portion of the seat.

A 'represents the seat of a vehicle to which the invention is to beapplied.

The invention simply consists of'a strap 2 preferably looped and runningthrough a hole 3 in the back or bottom of the seat or into a pocketformed therein, and provided withstrap 2 the pin being fixedin the solidpart of the seat and the strap slidable back and forth or in and outabout the strap. When the device is not in use the strap is pushed outand back through the hole, leaving the strap concealed, or nearlyconcealed, from view in front, as shown in dotted lines Fig. 1 the pinpreventing the strap being lost out. When the strap is needed as ahand-hold, it is pulled forward into the position shown in full linesFig. 1 The pin again serving as an anchorage to the end of the loop andpreventing the strap being pulled through the hole and loose from theseat. Manifestly there may be any desired number of thesehandhold-straps; generally two for each occupant, one strap on each sideof the occupant. Also it is manifest that these straps may be disposedat any desired points in the seat, and the form of pocket to receive thestrap may be varied, all without altering the principle of theinvention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The combination with a vehicle seat having an opening, of ahand-hold-strap slida ably held in said opening, and-an. anchoragemember to limit the sliding movement of the strap in and out of theopening.

2. The combination, with avehicle seat having an opening, of a fixed pinin the opening, and a looped-strap'embracing the pin and slidablethereon in and out of the opening, said pin serving as an anchorage forthe strap.

my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- HGSSGS.

CHARLES S. MACMULLAN. Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, JEssIE O. BRODIE.

' In'testimony whereofI have hereunto set-

